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Civil War: Mathew Brady

Mathew Brady, 1861

Already one of America's most popular photographers, Mathew Brady rose to prominence as a result of his efforts to document the Civil War. After the war, however, Americans turned away from the painful reminder these images produced, and Brady slipped into poverty before his death in 1896.

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